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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2015-04-24 11:03:37 -0500
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2015-08-07 00:32:07 +0100
commit56e6aa7fc2169206d213bfa2f5c6a481ed9e7722 (patch)
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rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
commit 414b7e3b9ce8b0577f613e656fdbc36b34b444dd upstream. The USB mini-driver in rtlwifi, which is used by rtl8192cu, issues a call to usb_control_msg() with a timeout value of 0. In some instances where the interface is shutting down, this infinite wait results in a CPU deadlock. A one second timeout fixes this problem without affecting any normal operations. This bug is reported at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927786. Reported-by: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Tested-by: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai<tiwai@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index e5fe956..17e6429 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static int _usbctrl_vendorreq_sync_read(struct usb_device *udev, u8 request,
reqtype = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_READ;
status = usb_control_msg(udev, pipe, request, reqtype, value, index,
- pdata, len, 0); /* max. timeout */
+ pdata, len, 1000);
if (status < 0)
pr_err("reg 0x%x, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0x%x value=0x%x\n",